Cooperative Agreement 22AN11100500053

This $228,064 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) supports the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) in conducting annual stock assessments of Puget Sound Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii). The herring stock assessments provide essential information about the abundance of this important prey species for endangered Chinook salmon and Southern Resident killer whales, as well...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $202,280 Project Grant under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) to the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife. The goal of this 22-month project, starting September 1, 2024, is to thoroughly review and, where possible, improve current stock assessment methods and estimates for Nooksack spring Chinook salmon. Key objectives include assessing escapement methodologies,...

This $682,107 Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) is funding a multi-faceted effort to mitigate economic impacts from reductions in Chinook salmon harvests in Southeast Alaska. The key components of the program include: Hatchery fish marking, tagging, and evaluation; hatchery enhancement projects; and hatchery research. Sub-awards to entities like the Alaska...

This $176,327 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) supports the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) in verifying and recalibrating the estimated escapement of fall Chinook salmon within the Grays Harbor indicator stock. The key objectives are to compare the current approach with three alternative methods: redd counts across the entire spawning...

This $512,630 federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) will support the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) in conducting scientific research and conservation efforts for the Chilkat River stock of Chinook salmon. The funding will be used to estimate smolt abundance, adult escapement, and harvest of this salmon population, allowing for the...

This $758,500 federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) will fund the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) to maintain or increase coded-wire-tag sampling rates for chinook salmon caught in Southeast Alaska commercial fisheries. The key objective is to ensure that at least 20% of chinook salmon caught in the commercial fisheries of Southeast Alaska are...

The Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife received a $224,667 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enter 2022 return year Puget Sound and coastal Washington Chinook salmon scale ages, coded wire tag recovery information, and biological data into a centralized age database. This work will be carried out from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023 under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA #11.438), which provides...

The University of California San Diego, through its Scripps Institution of Oceanography division, was awarded a $259,996 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to evaluate ocean demographic parameters and salmon stock forecasts. Funded through NOAA's $11.4 million Sea Grant Support program, the two-year project will develop hierarchical models integrating cohort data across California salmon stocks. Researchers will reconstruct past cohorts, estimate...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $1.19 million project grant to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game through the Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA #11.438) to support assessment and data collection activities for Chinook salmon stocks in Alaska from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. Specifically, the grant will fund projects to estimate abundance, age/sex composition, outmigration numbers of smolt, and future marine harvest of Chinook salmon in the Chilkat River...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $2.14 million Project Grant to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) for the period of July 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. Funding will support maintaining or increasing coded wire tag sampling rates for Chinook salmon caught in commercial fisheries in Southeast Alaska at an objective of 20% or more each statistical...